Anyone got the idea of the UK time when it will happen?
It's 5PM Friday in the UK.
Sensei, if it's not already claimed i'll take the key!
I'm eager to find out if my hatred has been well-placed or not!
Sending!
Also, since I'm not really too worried about getting banned or something, I shall say this of the game: At a basic level, it still functions like an Everquest/WoW derivative MMO that's become the standard. You have skills on the hotbar, they have a cooldown, stats act in a similar way. They've added a lot of Elder Scrolls flavor, your character can jump and dodge manually and there are a lot of special attacks that make you think about the position of everyone's characters, and regular melee attacks do swing in an arc and collide with other characters, although they feel still and on a cooldown compared to the fluid movement of, say, Skyrim, or even Morrowind- again, in the real-time-but-turn-based tradition of most MMOs. The world doesn't feel like Elder Scrolls either- there's no non-game-relevant objects, you can't really just run around and do whatever you want, each dungeon and quest was meant to be seen in a relatively specific order before you move to the next discreet area. There also aren't NPCs just walking around you can talk to, random things to find in the world, etc. Areas are intended for characters of a specific level range, so on, so forth.
In other words, it feels like a standard MMO made more Elder Scrolls-like, rather than an Elder Scrolls game made online. I stipulate this with saying, it looks like probably the best standard-style MMO I've played. I also don't know if the general sense of a narrow focus without the ability to run around doing whatever is reduced in the latest beta this friday. However, compared to steam sales and indie games and what have you, there's just no way I'm paying $60 for the game, and THEN paying for a subscription after the first month. It's just too expensive- requiring merely the subscription like EVE, or a one-time fee like Guild Wars would have been fine. I'm a cheapass in general though, maybe others will feel differently.
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Topic: The Elder Scrolls Online: Removing Subscription Requirements (Read 61100 times)